Religion: Catholics & Jews

There is a spiritual bond of brotherhood between two religious groups in
the U.S.Roman Catholics and Jews. This is the contention of Father
Thurston N. Davis, editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Catholics and
Jews, "immersed in a pervading Protestant culture here in the U.S.,
have at least some inkling that we share, in divergent yet strangely
cognate ways, a common inheritance from the centuries."

Spiritual Semites. Pope Pius XI once referred to Catholics as "spiritual
Semites". "The stronger his faith and the more profound his
appreciation of it," says Jesuit Davis, "the more...